1. Self starter?

4. Cassandra Peterson's "Mistress of the Dark"

10. Tower of ___

15. Draft picks

17. Meminger in "The Book Thief"

18. Popular coffee chain in Israel

19. "The Girl Rabbi of the Golden West"

21. Agra attire

22. They are not true

23. That, in Oaxaca

24. Decrease

25. The first Asian-American rabbi

30. Shortage

31. Small batteries

32. "___ it the truth!"

33. Vol. 1, No. 1, e.g.

36. Sociologist's deg.

37. West end

38. Old ___ (a famed ship's nickname)

40. Composer Brian

41. Nine-digit ID

42. Neural network

43. Theme of this puzzle

49. The lady of the haus

50. "Ruh ___!" (Scooby-Doo gulp)

51. Victorian, for one

52. Top-notch

55. Masthead figs.

56. Cinematography org.

59. Compact Cadillac

60. Snaky swimmers

61. 22.5 degrees

62. Vicinity

63. The first female rabbi (and first lesbian) to lead both a congregational organization and seminary

66. Bacteria discovered by Theodor Escherich

70. One way to spell mother "b'Ivrit"

71. A coward ___ thousand deaths

72. Shakespeare beau

73. The world's first ordained female rabbi, who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944

76. Big mess

77. Display

78. ___ Jackson, wizard of the vibes

79. "How goodly are thy ___"

80. Marsh plants

81. "Now ___ theater near you!"

1. Colonel Sanders

2. One-time tony Manhattan eatery named for its inimitable female Jewish restaurateur

3. Puts back a stray hamster

4. Addition

5. What Joe Jackson received in baseball

6. Against

7. Son of Sarah

8. "In the Good Old Summertime" lyricist Shields

9. Litmus bluer: abbr.

10. Volcanic rocks

11. Kuwaiti, e.g.

12. When repeated, island off Tahiti

13. Give off, as light

14. Laser minus radiation?

16. Least bit, as of evidence

20. Subj. for aspiring bilinguals

26. He put manna in the tabernacle

27. Draconian

28. One of the Titans

29. Advice maven ___ Landers

33. Creative thought

34. He is the fifth named human in the Bible and son of 74-down

35. Opp. of NNW

37. Benz finish?

38. Tender night connector

39. ___ Lindheim, third national president of Hadassah

40. Big birds

43. Habeas corpus, e.g.

44. Boat propellers

45. Toothbrush handle

46. "That's false!"

47. Add moisture, in poetry

48. Apr. addressee

49. 4-H kin

53. Soooo boooring

54. Riddle-me-___

55. Make more appealing

56. Neighbor of Georgia

57. Gourmand's seasoning

58. Relative of rummy

61. ___ convention

62. Adage

64. Inflexible

65. Descriptive wd.

66. At one time, at one time

67. ___ of silence

68. Yemen neighbor

69. Hit the road

73. ___ gestae

74. Mother of 34-down

75.  1950's political inits.